Another option is to purchase one of the many PCs coming off lease and are
refurbished. You can find these on Amazon, Newegg, and so on. With these
units you have the opportunity to stay at Win7 if you wish, they often have
a native serial port, support for two monitors, and have some flavor of PCI
card slot under the hood. Prices can be under $200, even. Have fun! - jeff
wk6i
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been dancing around replacing the PC at N5UWY (2006 Dell Precision 670
> with a Xeon or two - I forget - and 16 GB RAM) for quite some time now but
> have now been introduced to Intel's little NUC boxes. If you don't mind a
> Celery processor, they're really cheap. As soon as you make the jump to a
> Core i3 (or i5 or i7), the price jumps up a lot but still +/-$300 if you
> don't go nuts.
>
> Some cases have room for a 2.5" disk, some don't. No room inside for
> "cards" but no one cares. Some do have MB headers for serial ports if you
> are desperate. Plenty of USB 2 and 3 and DP/Thunderbolt and HDMI and SATA
> connectors depending on which version you get. These things also run on
> "12-19 V dc", which opens up interesting possibilities.
>
> So my question is this ... how much of the processing for RTTY is done by
> the sound device (avoiding $0.99 USB dongles) and how much is done by the
> CPU? Will their least expensive Core i3 be adequate? I'm assuming the
> answer is yes but really need more expert advice. What about for more
> DSP-intensive stuff like the JT modes?
>
>
> Here's an example:
> https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=56-102-168
>
>
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